Analysis of the floundering of the intelligence community — the C.I.A., N.S.A. and Defense Department. He says they are all incompetent and politicised. A Defense Department intelligence unit was set up to tout trumped-up evidence against Saddam, which CIA analysts were pressured into endorsing. Read an interview with the author.

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